Iron Creed

Iron Creed ranks in Forever

1. Rank 1 Increases the threat generated by your Holy Strike ability by 5%. While Righteous Fury is active, Holy Strike also reduces your damage taken by 2% for 6 sec.
2. Rank 2 Increases the threat generated by your Holy Strike ability 10%. While Righteous Fury is active, Holy Strike also reduces your damage taken by 4% for 6 sec.
3. Rank 3 Increases the threat generated by your Holy Strike ability 15%. While Righteous Fury is active, Holy Strike also reduces your damage taken by 6% for 6 sec.
4. Rank 4 Increases the threat generated by your Holy Strike ability 20%. While Righteous Fury is active, Holy Strike also reduces your damage taken by 8% for 6 sec.
5. Rank 5 Increases the threat generated by your Holy Strike ability 25%. While Righteous Fury is active, Holy Strike also reduces your damage taken by 10% for 6 sec.

Rank 1 verified in footage and rank 5 on the BlizzCon slide (the slide's 'ability 25%' typo is Blizzard's); ranks 2-4 from a secondary source.

Where Iron Creed sits in the Protection tree

Iron Creed is a Protection talent for Paladin. You need 25 points in Protection before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Iron Creed

71 of the 212 public Paladin builds saved here — 33% — put at least one point in Iron Creed. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Where this came from

New in Forever.

• BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
• Joardee VOD 2872476433 @2:17:48 (rank 1 tooltip, level 38 undead paladin)
• BlizzCon 2026 'Paladin Class Change' talent slides (max-rank tooltip)